Personal Narrative-D Is For Dad

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D is for Dad
One typical Friday night my parents and I were sitting on the couch watching the news waiting for my sister to get home from work so we could eat dinner my dad had everything ready so when she got home we could eat together. I was helping my mom put some Thanksgiving decorations up when the news came back on and said that “there was an attack in Paris by ISIS and at least 129 people were killed” just when they started talking about it my sister walked so we all sat together hoping and praying that everyone was safe. Just then my dad got a phone call he ran into the Kitchen to grab his phone. My dad answered his phone and it was his boss, he was calling to tell my dad “he needed

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